smock mill

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noun

a windmill with sails and shaft carried by a cap rotating on an octagonal tower.

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Origin of smock mill

First recorded in 1795–1805

Words nearby smock mill

Smitty, S.M.M., smock, smock frock, smocking, smock mill, smog, smogbound, smoggy, smokable, smoke

How to use smock mill in a sentence

The “doctorate” Duke claims is from an anti-Semitic Ukranian “diploma mill” as described by the State Department.
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The language school did not focus on providing instruction but instead was a visa mill.
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Not even Radio Bemba (Cuban slang for the rumor mill) had picked up the signal.
The Life and Hard Times Of The Family A Cuban Defector Left Behind|Brin-Jonathan Butler|December 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He spent three days in a rubber room wearing a plastic smock before returning.
A Million Ways to Die in Prison|Daniel Genis|December 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Did you know that you can purchase and mill 80 percent receivers without a license?
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But men we had known and trails we had followed furnished us plenty of grist for the conversational mill.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
Sounds rotten, but that's their style; and you've been through the mill at home enough to know what it is to be knifed socially.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
Along in the afternoon Porter's force was located near Moore's Mill, about four miles distant.
The Courier of the Ozarks|Byron A. Dunn
The first steam rolling mill, with the exception of the one at Soho, was put up at Bradley ironworks.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham|Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell
They heard how in the early spring in the meadow by the mill-dam Tim and I had stopped our ploughs to draw lots and he had lost.
The Soldier of the Valley|Nelson Lloyd

British Dictionary definitions for smock mill

smock mill

noun

a type of windmill having a revolving top

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